I, who of lighter love wrote many a verse,
Made public never words inspired by thee,
Lest strangers’ lips should carelessly rehearse
Things that were sacred and too dear to me.
Thy soul was noble; through these fifteen years
Mine eyes familiar, found no fleck nor flaw,
Stern to thyself, thy comrades’ faults and fears
Proved generously thine only law.
Small joy was I to thee; before we met
Sorrow had left thee all too sad to save.
Useless my love–as vain as this regret
That pours my hopeless life across thy grave.
A few random poems:
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore by William Shakespeare
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- Юлия Друнина – Верность
- Ок Мельникова – All I want, all I need
- The Country House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я верю в нашу общую звезду
- The Servant When He Reigneth by Rudyard Kipling
- A Moment Of Happiness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Business Girls poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apollo And The Graces poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Глазков – А минувшее все непонятнее ребусов
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Violet Nicolson ( 1865 – 1904); otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory), was an English poetess who wrote under the pseudonym of Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author. She committed suicide and is buried in Madras, now Chennai, India.